"I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist,……" — Michael Jackson

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
• Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
• Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate… — Aristotle
• Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to… — Aristotle
• Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason… — Aristotle
• Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary… — Walter Bagehot
• No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and… — Charles Kendall Adams
• I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there. — Tyra Banks
• It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet… — Joseph Addison
• We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point… — Henry Ward Beecher
• Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. — Henry Ward Beecher
• Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are… — Warren G. Bennis

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